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23/08/2026

INSIDE POLICE TACTICAL SQUAD: SOG

Kenya’s Special Operations Group (SOG) is an elite, multi-agency paramilitary unit primarily under the Administration Police Service’s Border Patrol Unit, working in close coordination with the National Intelligence Service (NIS). It was formed to counter Al-Shabaab and related threats, drawing personnel from units such as the General Service Unit (GSU) and Rapid Deployment Unit (RDU). The unit specializes in high-risk, remote, and forested environments along the Kenya-Somalia border (areas including Garissa, Mandera, Lamu, and especially Boni Forest), as well as anti-banditry operations....

30/06/2026

The Eyes of Accra: Ghana’s Intelligence State

From CIA-backed coup plots against Kwame Nkrumah to soldiers burning High Court judges alive on a military firing range, from a colonial Special Branch trained by India to a modern Bureau caught in an identity crisis of its own naming the hidden history of West Africa's most institutionally evolved, yet still secretive, intelligence machine Prologue: The Fire at Bundase On the night of June 30, 1982, during the curfew hours that the Provisional National Defence Council had imposed across Accra, soldiers went from house to house....

From CIA-backed coup plots against Kwame Nkrumah to soldiers burning High Court judges alive on a military firing range, from a colonial Special Branch trained by India to a modern Bureau caught in…

29/06/2026

The Oilfield and the Abyss: Inside Angola’s Intelligence State

From a KGB-trained secret police that dissolved its enemies in blood, to a trio of generals who built a $3 billion intelligence empire on top of Africa's second-largest oil reserves — how the MPLA turned espionage into the art of permanent power Prologue: The River and the Bodies In May 2012, two men organized a street protest in Luanda. António Alves Kamulingue and Isaías Sebastião Cassule were not revolutionaries....

From a KGB-trained secret police that dissolved its enemies in blood, to a trio of generals who built a $3 billion intelligence empire on top of Africa’s second-largest oil reserves — how the…

29/06/2026

The Labyrinth of Kinshasa: Inside the Democratic Republic of Congo’s Intelligence Apparatus

From the CIA-backed death of Patrice Lumumba to Mobutu's feared secret police, from the shadowy assassination of a president in his own office to torture chambers beneath a Kinshasa office block how Africa's largest country built, destroyed, and rebuilt its intelligence machine across six decades of blood, coups, and Cold War intrigue Prologue: A Man in a Notebook In the early 1990s, a young Katangese man sat on a bench near the United States Embassy in Kinshasa....

29/06/2026

Inside Eritrea’s Secret Intelligence State

How a liberation movement became one of Africa's most feared and opaque intelligence machines — surveilling its own people, funding proxies across the Horn of Africa, and reaching into the living rooms of diaspora communities in London, Stockholm, and Washington D.C. Prologue: The Knock at the Door It is past midnight in Kassala, Sudan, in the spring of 1994. Two men — Weldemariam Bahlibi and Tekleberhan Gebretsadek, known as Wedi-Bashay — are members of the executive committee of the Eritrean Liberation Front-Revolutionary Council (ELF-RC), a rival faction to the ruling party back in the newly independent Eritrea....

How a liberation movement became one of Africa’s most feared and opaque intelligence machines — surveilling its own people, funding proxies across the Horn of Africa, and reaching into the li…

25/06/2026

THE CROCODILE’S SHADOW: HOW’S EMMERSON MNANGAGWA BECAME ZIMBABWE’S MOST POWERFUL MAN

In the smoke filled backrooms of Harare’s corridors of power, where whispers carry more weight than public speeches, one man has long moved like a predator just beneath the surface. Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa known universally as “the Crocodile” rose not through charisma or mass appeal, but through decades of quiet, ruthless command over Zimbabwe’s security apparatus. Even at the height of Robert Mugabe’s seemingly unassailable rule, Mnangagwa was widely regarded as the regime’s indispensable enforcer, the man who knew where the bodies were buried because, in many cases, he had overseen the architecture that put them there....

21/06/2026

Inside Ethiopia’s Military Intelligence Agency: The Defense Intelligence Department

The Defense Intelligence Department (DID) is the military intelligence arm of the Ethiopian National Defense Force (ENDF), responsible for gathering, analyzing, and disseminating intelligence to support military operations, national defense, and strategic decision-making. It operates within the broader structure of the ENDF, which is Ethiopia's combined military force comprising ground forces, air force, and planned naval elements. The DID focuses on military-specific intelligence, including threats from external adversaries, internal security risks related to armed conflicts, and support for counterinsurgency and peacekeeping efforts....

The Defense Intelligence Department (DID) is the military intelligence arm of the Ethiopian National Defense Force (ENDF), responsible for gathering, analyzing, and disseminating intelligence to su…

18/01/2026

INSIDE PRESIDENT MOI’s FOREIGN POLICY LEGACY

Nation Media GroupMarch 18, 2020By Peter Kagwanja Unexpectedly, former President Daniel Toroitich arap Moi, who died on February 4, 2020, at 95, will be remembered as one of the most influential figures in 20th century Africa. He was also one of the principal architects of Kenya’s foreign policy in the turbulent Cold War era. The story of Moi’s encounter with the world of diplomacy starts after 1945....

Nation Media GroupMarch 18, 2020By Peter Kagwanja Unexpectedly, former President Daniel Toroitich arap Moi, who died on February 4, 2020, at 95, will be remembered as one of the most influential fi…

18/01/2026

DANIEL ARAP MOI: THE PAN AFRICAN GIANT

The East African Daniel Toroitich Arap Moi, the former Kenyan president who died on Monday aged 95 years, played a critical role in the revival of the collapsed East African Community. Moi also fought hard for the formation of the Common Market for Eastern and Southern African countries (Comesa). Opinion is divided, however, as to whether his role in the revival of the EAC had more to do with his personal political survival in Kenya or the welfare of the region....

The East African Daniel Toroitich Arap Moi, the former Kenyan president who died on Monday aged 95 years, played a critical role in the revival of the collapsed East African Community. Moi also fou…

18/01/2026

HOW MUSEVENI USED UGANDA’S MILITARY AS TOOL FOR FOREIGN POLICY

The MonitorFriday, May 14, 2021 Gen Yoweri Museveni, the founder of the National Resistance Army rebel group that brought him to power in 1986, is a man of many hats from which the feather of war shines. He is one of few sitting presidents to be spotted in public clutching an AK-47 assault rifle or donning military fatigue, with a four-star general’s full insignia, to attend a civilian and religious function....

The MonitorFriday, May 14, 2021 Gen Yoweri Museveni, the founder of the National Resistance Army rebel group that brought him to power in 1986, is a man of many hats from which the feather of war s…